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मृगयु (mRgayu)

 
शब्दसागरः
English
मृगयु
m.
 (-युः)
1. BRAHMĀ.
2. A jackal.
3. A hunter.
E.
 मृग a deer, या
to go, कु Unādi
aff.
 , form
irr
or मृग्-यु ।
Capeller Eng
English
मृ॑गयु
m.
 hunter.
Yates
English
मृगयु (युः) 2.
m.
 Brahmā
a jackal
a hunter, a poacher.
Wilson
English
मृगयु
m.
 (-युः)
1 BRAHMĀ.
2 A jackal.
3 A hunter.
E.
 मृग a deer, या to go, कु Uṇādi
aff.
 , form
irr
 .
Apte
English
मृगयुः [mṛgayuḥ], [मृग-अस्त्यर्थे युच्]
A hunter, fowler
यथा नयत्यसृक्पातैर्मृगस्य मृगयु पदम्
Ms.*
 8.44
हन्ति नोपशयस्थो$पि शयालुर्मृगयुर्मृगान्
Śi.*
 2.8.
A jackal.
An epithet of Brahman.
Apte 1890
English
मृगयुः [मृग-अस्त्यर्थे युच्] 1 A hunter, fowler
हंति नोपशयस्थोऽपि शया लुर्मृगयुर्मृगान् Śi. 2. 80.
2 A jackal.
3 An epithet of Brahman.
Monier Williams Cologne
English
मृगयु॑
m.
 a huntsman,
AV.
&c.
&c.
a jackal,
L.
N.
 of Brahmā,
L.
Monier Williams 1872
English
मृगयु, उस्, m. a huntsman
a jackal
an epi-
thet of Brahmā.
Macdonell
English
मृगयु mṛ́gay-u,
m.
 hunter.
Benfey
English
मृगयु मृगयु, i. e. मृग्, i. 10, + उ,
m.
1. A hunter, Man. 4, 212
Bhāg. P. 4, 17, 14.
2. A jackal.
3. Brahman.
Apte Hindi
Hindi
मृगयुः
पुं*
 - मृग अस्त्यर्थे युच्
"शिकारी, बहेलिया"
मृगयुः
पुं*
 - -
गीदड़
मृगयुः
पुं*
 - -
ब्रह्मा का विशेषण
Shabdartha Kaustubha
Kannada
मृगयु
पदविभागः - > पुल्लिङ्गः
कन्नडार्थः - > ವ್ಯಾಧ /ಬೇಟೆಗಾರ /ಬೇಡರವನು
निष्पत्तिः - > "कुः" (उ० १-३७)
व्युत्पत्तिः - > मृगान् याति
प्रयोगाः - > "हन्ति नोपशयस्थोऽपि शयालुमृगयुर्मृगान्"
उल्लेखाः - > माघ० २-८०
L R Vaidya
English
mfgayu {% m. %} 1. A hunter, M.iv.212
2. a jackal
3. an epithet of Brahman (m.).
अभिधानचिन्तामणिः
Sanskrit
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व्याधो मृगवधाजीवी लुब्धको मृगयुश्च सः ।
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व्याध (पुं), मृगवधाजीविन् (पुं), लुब्धक (पुं), मृगयु (पुं)
अभिधानरत्नमाला
Sanskrit
मृगयु
मृगयु, लुब्धक, व्याध, वागुरिक
मृगयुर्लुब्धको व्याधो बुधैर्वागुरिकः स्मृतः ॥ ५९६ ॥
verse 2.1.1.596
page 0067
Vedic Reference
English
Mṛgayu, ‘hunter, ’ occurs in the later Saṃhitās^1 and the
Brāhmaṇas, ^2 but not very often. The Vājasaneyi Saṃhitā^3
and the Taittirīya Brāhmaṇa, ^4 however, in the list of victims
at the Puruṣamedha (‘human sacrifice’) include a number of
names which seem to be those of persons who make a liveli-
hood by fishing or by hunting, such as the Mārgāra, ‘hunter, ’
the Kaivarta or Kevarta, Pauñjiṣṭha, Daśa, Maināla, ‘fisher
man, ’ and perhaps the Bainda and the Ānda, ^5 who seem to
have been some sort of fishermen.
It is not probable that even in the earliest Vedic period
hunting formed the main source of livelihood for any of the
Vedic tribes: pastoral pursuits and agriculture (Kṛṣi) were, no
doubt, the mainstay of their existence. But it would be
unreasonable to suppose that not much hunting was done,
both for recreation and for purposes of food, as well as for
protection of flocks from wild beasts. The Rigveda is naturally
our chief source of information in regard to hunting. The
arrow was sometimes employed, ^6 but, as is usual with primitive
man, the normal instruments of capture were nets and pitfalls.
Birds were regularly caught in nets (Pāśa, ^7 Nidhā, ^8 Jāla), ^9 The
bird-catcher being called nidhā-pati, ^10 ‘master of snares.’ The
net was fastened on pegs^11 (as is done with modern nets for
catching birds). Another name of net is apparently Mukṣījā.
Pits were used for catching antelopes (Ṛśya), and so were
called ṛśya-da, ^12 ‘antelope-catching.’ Elephants were captured
as in Greek times, perhaps through the instrumentality of tame
females (see Mṛga Hastin). Apparently the boar was captured
in the chase, dogs being used, ^13 but the passage from which
this view is deduced is of uncertain mythological content.
There is also an obscure reference^14 to the capture of the
buffalo (Gaura), but it is not clear whether the reference is to
shooting with an arrow or capturing by means of ropes,
perhaps a lasso, or a net. The lion was captured in pitfalls, ^15
or was surrounded by the hunters and slain
^16 one very obscure
passage refers to the lion being caught by ambuscade, which
perhaps merely alludes to the use of the hidden pit.^17
The modes of catching fish are little known, for the only
evidence available are the explanations of the various names
mentioned in the Yajurveda. Sāyaṇa^18 says that Dhaivara is
one who takes fish by netting a tank on either side
Dāśa and
Śauṣkala do so by means of a fish-hook (baḍiśa)
Bainda,
Kaivarta, and Maināla by means of a net (jāla)
Mārgāra
catches fish in the water with his hands
Ānda by putting in
pegs at a ford (apparently by building a sort of dam)
Parṇaka
by putting a poisoned leaf on the water. But none of these
explanations can claim much authority.
1) Av. x. 1, 26
Vājasaneyi Saṃhitā,
xvi. 27
xxx. 7, etc. Cf. mṛgaṇyu, Rv.
x. 40, 4.
2) Taittirīya Brāhmaṇa, i. 5, 1, 1
iii. 4, 3, 1
Pañcaviṃśa Brāhmaṇa,
xiv. 9, 12, etc.
3) xxx.
4) iii. 4.
5) Vājasaneyi Saṃhitā, xxx. 16
Tait-
tirīya Saṃhitā, iii. 4, 12, 1.
6) Rv. ii. 42, 2.
7) Pāśin, ‘hunter, ’ Rv. iii. 45, 1.
8) Rv. ix. 83, 4
x. 73, 11.
9) Av. x. 1, 30.
10) Rv. ix. 83, 4.
11) Av. viii. 8, 5.
12) Rv. x. 39, 8.
13) Rv. x. 86, 4.
14) Rv. x. 51, 6.
15) Rv. x. 28, 10.
16) Rv. v. 15, 3.
17) Rv. v. 74, 4. Cf. Griffith, Hymns
of the Rigveda, 1, 542, n.
18) On Taittirīya Brāhmaṇa, iii. 4,
12, 1. Cf. Weber, Zeitschrift der Deutschen
Morgenländischen Gesellschaft, 18, 281.
Cf. Zimmer, Altindisches Leben, 243-
245.
शब्दकल्पद्रुमः
Sanskrit
मृगयुः,
पुं,
 (मृगं यातीति । मृग + “मृगय्वादयश्च ।”उणा० १ । ३८ । इति कुः । निपात्यते च ।) ब्रह्मा ।शृगालः । व्याधः । इति मेदिनी । ये, १०१ ॥
(यथा, भट्टिकाव्ये । ४ । ४४ ।“मृगयुमिव मृगोऽथ दक्षिणेर्म्मादिशमिव दाहवतीं मरावुदन्यन् ।”)
वाचस्पत्यम्
Sanskrit
मृगयु
पु०
 मृग--अस्त्यर्थे यु । १ ब्रह्मणि २ शृगाले ३ व्याधे चमेदि० “मृगयुमिव मृगोऽथ दक्षिणेर्मा” भट्टिः ।
Capeller
German
मृ॑गयु
m.
 Jäger.
Stchoupak
French
मृगयु-
m.
 chasseur.